holidays continue into January

Happy New Year! Holidays are over, but not at zappos :) Because of the craziness and focus during Q4, the Zappos Holiday party is in January! This year it was at Haze in the Aria and was a masquerade theme

but first dinner at Julian Serrano in the Aria, tapas restaurant...the only one that had decent reviews on yelp besides Lemongrass

salmon roulade and the beef and cheese were my favorite

love brie cheese

as you can see, Caron wins for best dress...she fit the part perfectly in her old prom dress :) Me and Michelle black dresses and a mask
had some cirque going on which was pretty cool

found Michelle and Dee...loved my butterfly mask, but made my teeth stick out like rabbit teeth :)
was actually debating between this one and the one Jay is wearing, since his lit up, but liked the red butterfly too much and he liked the lights too much :)

fun restaurant find

Friday nights we are usually either at town square, watching a movie at home or looking for somewhere to go or eat. Serendipity or Sugar Factory is always a fun treat for us. We ended up at Caesar's intending to go to Serendipity, but decided Cheesecake Factory, but the wait was too long, and then saw Max Brenner Chocolate shop, which I recognized the name from a Facebook post, so wanted to check it out. Didn't look kid friendly from the outside, so was surprised they had a kids menu when I asked...it was a fun one too, but like it says first food, then chocolate... umm, but let me tell you this girl threw a fit during dinner when she couldn't have dessert before real food, luckily she turned her attitude around before she couldn't have anything :)

I had the brenner burger, which was yum...loved the dip and fries

Jay had the steak quesadillas


the neatest part was the kids grilled cheese bites

came with little paintbrushes to paint the cheese bites and fries with ketchup

of course, they ended up playing

her masterpiece she called it

kids dessert which was called a chocolate mess party...it was okay, the cake at the bottom was kind of hard...it was molten cake, vanilla ice cream, strawberries, whip cream, sprinkles and a vile of caramel and a bowl of chocolate kripsy candies

jay swore by the tiramisu, I thought it was okay, but he's a tiramisu fan, so I guess I will take his word for it

we'll be back here...they have some cute, fun gifts in the chocolate shop and it's just decorated so fun with chocolate everywhere!

Jan bdays

Special birthdays in January...Lolo! at one of his favorite places, buffet asia

and Auntie Nin!

so nice to start the year off celebrating special occasions with family!